TheHiddenCatboy

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It really depends on what the purpose of voter ID is.

    If it’s to ensure that everyone that is entitled to vote votes once and only once, you’ll see some key properties. It’ll be free and easy to get. Applying for it is as simple as applying to vote (which itself will be easy to do), and it’ll be virtually automatic that you get it. In many cases, it’ll arrive unannounced as the Government already knows everything it needs to get you this card, and you won’t have to do anything but show up at the polls election day with the card they gave you.

    If it’s to ensure that only ‘desirable’ voters can vote, it’ll have other key properties. Getting it will be as easy as the above if you’re the preferred class. But if you’re the undesirable class of voter, getting it will have more hassles than its worth. It’ll cost money. It’ll have onerous requirements. It’ll take you lots of time, and require transportation. It’ll be designed to discourage you from voting. Because that’s the goal. Onerous enough that you give up and let your betters rule you like God intended.

    Can you guess what the United States’ goal with voter ID is? Here’s a hint. We have a long history of treating certain groups of people like crap, and despite 1865’s end of the Civil War, there are STILL people who would rather see Black people in chains and treated like animals.



  • What the shitgibbon calls things should be reported on, then promptly countered, so his bullshit can’t get embedded in the zeitgeist.

    We also need more news sites. If you think you can do a better job reporting the news than the Guardian, than by all means, please do so, and do what you think is best. Because the only way we’ll get past this is by holding Master Mould Shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants’ multiple fuckups to the light in as many ways as possible.

    Sorry not sorry for not engaging in the shiny object you seem fixated on. I’ve got bigger fish to fry.









  • That’s not what grumps said. Hold the one guy who voted wrong accountable. Hell, hold them all accountable, but holding Dems accountable happens in the Primary, not in the General.

    Besides. You didn’t vote blue no matter who. Enough people stayed home, voted third party, or, heaven forbid, voted for the Shitgibbon, that we ended up with the Shitgibbon. Everything we warned you about has come to pass. Things your little faction claim to care about have been gutted. Hard-won progress over decades of effort all the way back to my hippy mom’s youth have been lost, and more and more are on the chopping block of the absolute shitheads you and yours got elected.

    Transgender people are being taken behind the woodshed. Gays are next. Other things we took for granted such as vaccinations, clean air, clean water, billionaires having to at least give lip service to not doing naked bribery and corruption, rule of law, stability in international interactions (trade war with fucking CANADA of all places?!), and such fundamental things like democracy and free speech are on the chopping block. And all you are here to do is punish Democrats. The Trumpster Fire thanks you for your contribution and rewards you with a tiny step back in the line. Don’t worry, though. You’ll be on the chopping block soon enough. The Insurrection Act is going to come for us all, thanks to the actual stupid idea you just pushed here.

    When you hold people accountable in the General instead of the Primary, you enable the Fascist takeover of the US. The only question at this point is whether this action was taken from stupidity or complicity.


  • Hey, Colorado is on that list!

    Salida is located in Chaffee County which went Harris by about +14%. Palisade is located in Mesa County, which went Trump +25%, and is Tina Peter’s little fiefdom (or was before she got locked up). Breckenridge is located in Summit County, which went Harris by +38%. Stranahan’s is located right up the way from me in Denver County, which went Harris by over +56%. Can you guys come get us?! 🤣 Buena Vista is also in Chaffee County. Basalt is located between Eagle and Pitkin Counties, which went for Harris at +25% or more.

    If you absolutely must buy American, I think all of the ones on the list from Colorado save for Peach Street are good ones to buy, but you might also want to try to dig into their disclosures.


  • All the numbers I’ve seen say EV sales are increasing. Newsweek reported that despite increasing year over year sales numbers for EVs, Telsa is experiencing reduced yoy sales figures. Some examples:

    • Europe in general saw a 34% YoY increase in EV sales, but a 45% decrease for Tesla.
    • Germany reported a staggering 76% decline in that year.
    • Spain saw similar declines.
    • China saw a 49% decrease YoY for Tesla, and a staggering 161% increase for local company BYD. While some of this wasdue to a production shutdown for Tesla in Shanghai, still, EVs are booming in China but Tesla isn’t.

    Newsweek claimed that there was a downturn in EVs in Australia, but instead of telling us ‘sales of EVs dipped x% YoY’, they go with a more crappier message that EVs represented a smaller proportion of cars this year compared to last year, which is of course useless without knowing how many cars overall were sold.